Spendmatters - spendmatters.com
General Information:
Latest News:
A New Approach to Scenario Planning: Procurement Strategy Design 27 Aug 2013 | 05:27 pm
Categories: Innovation, Procurement Strategy & Planning Tags: L1, Process and Best Practice When I’ve worked with teams in the past on scenario planning exercises in procurement and other areas, I’v...
Time to Go Cheese Shopping: US Dairy Production to Reach a High 27 Aug 2013 | 12:42 am
Categories: Commodities, Guest Post, Price Forecast Tags: General News, L2, Mintec US milk production in 2013 is expected to reach 91.7m tons, up 0.8m tons year-on-year and a new record high aided b...
Microsoft’s Innovation Problem, Wall Street’s Steady Shoeshine Business, Is Social Data the New Credit Score? 26 Aug 2013 | 10:27 pm
Categories: Afternoon Coffee Tags: General News, L2 There's some logic in using social media data in place of a credit score if a potential borrower doesn't have one, but what one German lending com...
New CPOs: Start in the Finance, Sales, and Marketing Departments, Not Procurement! 26 Aug 2013 | 09:34 pm
Categories: Procurement Commentary, Procurement Strategy & Planning, UK/Europe Tags: L2, Process and Best Practice Last week Spend Matters Netherlands welcomed a new guest blogger who is well known ...
Procurement in 2020: Supply Chain Takeover 26 Aug 2013 | 08:24 pm
Categories: Innovation, Procurement Commentary, Supply Chain Management Tags: L2, Process and Best Practice Procurement and supply chain have always been strange bedfellows in manufacturing organiza...
blur Group: Blurring the Boundaries Between Supplier Networks, Outsourcing, and Communities 26 Aug 2013 | 07:42 pm
Categories: Innovation, Supplier Management Tags: PRO blur Group is either the next Amazon or eBay – or a firm where market excitement and valuation has got way ahead of itself, even if the basic bu...
A New Approach to Scenario Planning: Procurement Strategy Design 26 Aug 2013 | 05:19 pm
Categories: Procurement Commentary, Procurement Strategy & Planning Tags: L1, Process and Best Practice For those whose interest I’ve piqued on the topic, I would encourage you think about how scena...
Closing Out “Best Of” With Peter Smith’s Picks from the Spend Matters UK/Europe Archive 25 Aug 2013 | 10:00 pm
Categories: Best Of Spend Matters, Commentary, UK/Europe Tags: Best Of, L2 Here are Peter Smith's own picks from Spend Matters UK/Europe. Take for instance "'Cod and chips please. No, I said COD'! B...
Best of Spend Matters: Comments Without Context 24 Aug 2013 | 11:30 pm
Categories: Best Of Spend Matters, Commentary Tags: Best Of, Incendiary Tidbits, L2 When I was an 18-year-old student in journalism school, instead of joining the traditional newspaper or writing fo...
Steve Ballmer Retires From Microsoft (Or Was He Pushed Out?) 24 Aug 2013 | 12:47 am
Categories: Breaking News, Friday Rant Tags: Incendiary Tidbits, L2 Since Bill Gates left Microsoft to Steve Ballmer - his college buddy from Harvard - it hasn't done so well. Missteps include Vista...
